North Pacific Trust Company (inc.) 7 & 8 COMMERCIAL CLUB BUILDING. PORTLAND H. H. URDAHL, Manager MAIN PHONES. FLOOR Main 907, A 4907 Places on Sale, beginning Monday, April 26, 1909 100,000 SHARES DEVELOPMENT STOCK OF THE Gresham Oil & (Incorporated) Gas Developing Co. AT 50 CTS. A SHARE, PAR VALUE $1.00 FACTS FOR TOUR CONSIDERATION AHE OIL OR GAS FIELD at Gresham is believed to be of an extraordinary easy developing kind. Gaseous oils are seen on the surface of the ground in many places. The immensely fertile lands of the Gresham district are destined to enhance in value immediately upon the tapping of Oil or Gas. THIS DISTRICT WILL BECOME THE LOGICAL MANUFACTURING DISTRICT of the Pacific Coast. Lands will soon become worth a thousand dollars an acre. There is not a better indication of oil or gas found in the United States than is to be seen by anyone who will examine the field at Gresham. Portland, offering a ready market for both oil and gas. lies at the very door. Portland capital and eastern land and home buyers will seek the district in large numbers, looking for substancial investments. 50 cents a share. It will be worth many times its selling price within a short time, so the experts say. One oil expert who worked at Gresham for weeks, experimenting and going over the field is taking stock. The incorporators of Gresham Oil & Gas Company, all good level-headed, honest business men, do not participate in any profits until oil or gas is spurt ing from their wells at Gresham. These gentlemen have just as much certainty as the earth ever offered in evidence to any man. The North Pacific Trust Company is composed of some of the best men in Portland bank and Board of Trade people. They have accepted this 11)0.000 shares of stock at 50 cents a share, taking as their pay for selling the same, stock in the Gresham Company, only allowing cash commissions about necessary to meet immediate current expenses. The Gresham Oil and Gas Developing work will begin at the earliest possible time consistent with practcability. THERE WILL NOT BE ANY MORE STOCK OFFERED AT LESS THAN $1 PER SHARE after the sales close on this 100,000 original alotment of Development Stock. This Gresham Oil & Gas Developing Company stock of 100,000 shares creates the fund to buy lands, drills, machinery and other things necessary to carry out the objects of the company in accordance with its charter under the laws of the State of Oregon. We be lieve that hundreds of others will soon fall in line as substantial supporters of the fact that Gresham Oil & Gas Developing stock is the best and most solid investment for big and quick returns that has ever been offered to the people of the Pacific Northwest. Nine men out of ten of those who have lived in Gresham more than two years believe it is an oil district. Men raised in the Pennsylvania oil districts say Gresham has better surface conditions than were seen in Pennsylvania. Secure a good share of stock at OUR PROSPECTUS In pursuance of the following facts, this company has organized principally for the purpose of de veloping oil and gas fields at and near Gresham. Multnomah county, Oregon. for more than one-quarter of a century. geologists. mineralogists and gas and oil practical experts, have called attention to people in thia community of certain and al most sure indications of the exist ence of petroleum or gas in and near Gresham, Oregon, and vicinity. Ex perts on gas and oil lands, and peo ple living at Gresham, Oregon, and vicinity, have had come to their no tice from time to time almost cer tain indications that gas or oil ex ists in that territory; that a certain spring of water on properties known as lots 1, 2, 3. 4. B. 5, Gresham, Ore gon. has daily for unknown ages of fered up its mute, but almost certain evidence, that a great body of oil exists underneath the above-men tioned property. Pounds of a greasy jelly settles in the bottom of the spring daily; vaseline like, both In its appearance and touch; that In digging below the many layers of almost hermltic sealed clay, we have found on the above-mentioned prem ises. sand strongly indicating oil, and that workmen in the trenches or pits below the surface of these clays run Into disagreeable and foul odors, indicating gas or petroleum beds. (Second.) The Gresham OU & Gas Developing Co. inc., incorporat ed for 500.000 shares of stock at par value of 11.00, with 250.000 shares of treasury developing stock, will place the first 100,000 shares of developing stock to be sold at 50 cents per share, par value 11.00. ThlB is done for the purpose of pav ing for the lands, and preparatory work of all descripitons; buy ma chinery, drils, put up such buildings and storehouses as is necessary for developing the oil or gas In that, ter ritory. and that no other stock will be sold for less than par value, 11.00 per share, after the first shares of developing stock is sold at 50 cents per share, and that any treasury stock remaining on hand that does not necessarily have to be sold for further development, will be destroyed by The Gresham Oil & Gas Development Co. Inc , thereby enhancing in value the stock held by individuals through purchase. (Third.) Great possibilités in the scope of The Gresham Oil & Gas De veloping Co. Inc., need only to be presented In a mild form to the thinking Investor In the first place all moneys received from the sale of treasury stocks goes to pur chase properties for the company, to which every shareholders becomes a part owner Second, there are no salaried officials In this company's employ, and the moneys for the sale of stock goes In entirely to the ac tual purchase and developing of properties, and that on account of the location of these properties, and their close proximity to Portland, that when once oil or gas Is devel oped, the products easily become worth many more times the value that the products of properties are worth In remote districts. That in Portland alone there is a market an nually for many millions of dollars worth of petroleum or gas. that Gresham and vicinity would become one beehive of manufacturing of al most every description; that proper ty in and near Gresham would in crease ten to one hundred fold Its present value, and every dollar's worth of property In Portland would feel the stlmulance of the discovery of oil or gas at Gresham And that the first treasury stock being sold at fifty cents a share would rapidly ad vance to from five to fifty dollars a share, upon the discovery of oil or gas, which Is almost positively known to exist In the properties con trolled by the above company. STATISTICS as published by COLUMBIA <>. & G. CO. The following table shown how the stock of the different oil companies has advanced during the few years, according to published statistics: Black Mountain Central .............. Monte Cristo . . Dillon ................. Sterling .......... West Shorn . . . Peerless ............. K<rn ................... San Joaquin . . Kern River . ... Alcalde ............. New York . . Oil City ............. Pacific ............... 3 .05 3 50 .10 1.50 10 2 50 3 50 .25 3 15 .50 4.50 .50 25 3.75 .25 3.76 . .50 1 2 50 .50 21 50 150 00 .50 200.00 50 3 4 00 2 50 8S 00 120 00 Puente ............ 10 00 Hanford 10 00 St. Lawrence 1500 10 00 Kreyenhagcn Columbia 100 00 1.00 Union............ Homs ............... . .. 10 00 1 50 150 300 350 400 00 00 00 00 00 1 5000 00 The Hall * Hall Company, oper ating on a 40-acre tract, started al 50 cents per share, went to |3.10 In eighteen months A single oil well has been known to earn Five Million Dollars <36,- 000,000). One Hundred Dollars Invested In the Union Oil Company has since had a value of (150,000.00. The stock Oil Company Its original Investors 10 of the Western Union Is selling at five turn- cost and paying first per cent per month. The stocks of the Brookshire Oil Company, which sold originally at 25 Cents per share, is selling at from 34.50 to 35.00 per share and pay ing first Investors sixteen per cent per month dividends. The stocks of the Pinal Oil Com pany, which started at 26 cents per share. Is now selling at 325 00 to 330.00 per share and Is paying div idends at the rate of sixty per cent per month to original Investors. The advance In price of the stock repre sents a profit of about 10,00 per cent to first Investors. The Harnell Gusher In the Santa Maria fields han produced over 1.- 25000 barrels of oil In a year. The dividends of the Imperial Oil Company now aggregate over 31.300,000.00. A man's labor will not make him rich; he must have some money and make that work for him NINKTY-SKVKN PER (EXT Ok TIIE Oil, (OMI'OIKS ARE SIC- < ESKFII,. Thirty oil companies to July ». l»0X. have tnld over 313,7X0,000 00 In dividends. If you own one share of our stock you have undivided. Indisputable title to one share In everything the company owns The Union Oil Company has paid In dividends over Two Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars 4 3'» 3000.000 00). The low grade fuel oil In worth at the wells 31.00 per barrel. The property of (he New Love Oil Company, formerly a ranch valued at 315,000.00, recently sold for 31 ■ 250,000.00. ’ ’ The production of the Coalinga field Is now nald to be over 1 000 - 000 barrels per month at 31 «0 per barrel. Wages never made any man rich, but saving and good Investments made a man Independent of wages Make your Investment In our stocks^ It Is a well known fact that many , fortunes have been mad» In the oil fields of this country. The Gresham Oil Developing Fields will be among the best. Offices for sale of stock and general information at 7 and 8 Commercial Club Bldg. (Main Floor), Portland, and near Depot, Gresham.